It took computer buff Scott Reed a while to finally click on to why he couldn’t become a dad. He and wife Laura tried in vain to start a family before doctors told him the laptop he always rested on his knees was to blame. They said the PC was generating so much heat around his Googles that his sperm was being damaged. Scott, 30, immediately switched to using the laptop on a table – and three months later Laura, also 30, became pregnant with daughter Taryn.

A voter ‘died’ after collapsing as he filled out his ballot paper – only to come back to life to make sure he’d had his say. The elderly man’s heart stopped suddenly as he cast his vote at a polling station in Detroit. Nurse Ty Houston, 48, explained how she performed CPR on the unidentified voter, who was accompanied by his wife. 'He was dead,' she told The Detroit News. 'He had no heartbeat and he wasn’t breathing. I started CPR, and after a few minutes, he revived and started breathing again. ‘The first question he asked was “Did I vote?”’

A US mum was fined $2,500 after her three-year-old son urinated outside - in his own front yard. A police officer saw Dillan Warden pull down his pants and issued the ticket, which will cost the family the equivalent of £1,560. Ashley Warden, the little boy's mother, said he was being potty trained but answered the call of nature outside as he wasn't near a toilet.

A woman in Colombia is convinced that her son is possessed by the devil. Ana Feria Santos, 28, claims the baby is able to produce flames, disappear from his crib - reappearing in unusual places like the washing machine - and even transform into an older child. Speaking to The Sun, she said: "This is Satanic. I have never in my life seen this. The bag would break if it held 20 bananas so how come it didn't break when the baby was in it?"

Spectators at a firework display in Edinburgh were sent running for cover when the whole lot went off at once. A rocket at the Pentland Community Centre display misfired and ricocheted into the remaining fireworks, setting them all off at the same time. Police and Red Cross representatives attended to spectators but no one was seriously injured, reports the BBC. Organisers have apologised for the freak accident and said they would be reviewing safety procedures.

A Russian MP wants to buy the house where Adolf Hitler was born - so he can knock it down. Frantz Klintsevich, an MP from the ruling United Russia party, is aiming to collect £1.8m from supporters to buy the house in the Austrian town of Braunau-am-Inn, according to a report in the Russian newspaper, Izvestia. "I would buy this property in the blink of an eye if I had that kind of money myself, but I do not. If I were to receive financial help, I would buy the house and destroy it demonstratively," he told the paper.